kde3 redhat install

[Amir Tal]

On Tuesday 09 April 2002 01:13, daniel wrote:

either satisfy the dependencies, or use --nodeps (which is not so recommended, 
it might brake you system) - it worked for me.
also, you do not have to remove old packages before installing, you can simply 
upgrade them. i am also on RH72, and i used :
rpm -Uvh --force --nodeps *
the --force is like --replacefiles, which will upgrade and replace your old 
kde files.

i know that this is NOT the recommended way, bit it worked for me.

tal.


> well i tried to install kde3 on my redhat box and it didn't work.  so i'm
> posting my not-so-impressive progress here in hopes of someone enlightening
> me:
>
> acording the readme file, i'm supposed to do this in the dir that i
> downloaded all the rpms to:
>
>  cd /where/you/downloaded/the/KDE3/RPMS
>  rpm -e `rpm -qa |egrep ^kde`
>  rpm -Uvh *rpm
>
> what exactly does this mean?
> anyway, this is what happened when i typed rpm -e `rpm -qa |egrep ^kde`:
>
> [root at hephaestus kde]# rpm -e `rpm -qa |egrep ^kde`
> error: removing these packages would break dependencies:
>         libDCOP.so.1   is needed by kdbg-1.2.1-5
>         libkdecore.so.3   is needed by kdbg-1.2.1-5
>         libkdesu.so.1   is needed by kdbg-1.2.1-5
>         libkdeui.so.3   is needed by kdbg-1.2.1-5
>         libkfile.so.3   is needed by kdbg-1.2.1-5
>         libkio.so.3   is needed by kdbg-1.2.1-5
>         libkssl.so.2   is needed by kdbg-1.2.1-5
>         libksycoca.so.3   is needed by kdbg-1.2.1-5
>
> knowing full well that that didn't work, i thought "what the hell" and did
> the next step anyway.  this of course didn't work either but did spew out
> the following:
>
> [root at hephaestus kde]# rpm -Uvh *rpm
> error: failed dependencies:
>         pkgconfig is needed by gphoto2-devel-2.0-2
>         Xconfigurator < 4.9.42-1 conflicts with hwdata-0.9-1
>         libSDL-1.2.so.0   is needed by kdeaddons-noatun-3.0.0-1
>         mozilla is needed by kdebindings-kmozilla-3.0.0-1
>         libgtkembedmoz.so   is needed by kdebindings-kmozilla-3.0.0-1
>         libgtksuperwin.so   is needed by kdebindings-kmozilla-3.0.0-1
>         libxpcom.so   is needed by kdebindings-kmozilla-3.0.0-1
>         libpisock.so.4   is needed by kdepim-pilot-3.0.0-1
>         gimp >= 1.2 is needed by kdesdk-gimp-3.0.0-2
>         timidity++ is needed by kmidi-3.0.0-1
>         sane-backends is needed by kooka-3.0.0-3
>         libsane.so.1   is needed by kooka-3.0.0-3
>         sane-backends is needed by libkscan-3.0.0-3
>         libsane.so.1   is needed by libkscan-3.0.0-3
>         libodbc.so.1   is needed by qt-ODBC-3.0.3-5
>         libpq.so.2   is needed by qt-PostgreSQL-3.0.3-5
>
> what is all this?
> and how do i fix it?
> what did i do wrong?
>
> here's what i'm using
>
>   pentium 125mhz
>   128mb ram
>   redhat 7.2
>
> help?? :)
>
> _________________________________
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>
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